#30 – Carmen
#101 – Amy Chaplin
#49 – Karla
I’ve sent each of you an e-mail with instructions for receiving your free copy of The Pianist’s Book of Musical Scales and Keys. Congratulations!
Thanks to all who participated. Stay tuned for another great giveaway next Tuesday!
It’s always challenging trying to come up with a creative and musical gifts for students each year, but I love trying to think of something that will be special and useful. After quite a bit of brainstorming and reflecting on what students have appreciated most in the past, I settled on the idea of making a customized book for each of them. The students who received the Manuscript Books I made them several years ago love them and still use them all the time for compositions and other musical projects, so this year I decided to make each of them their own Book of Musical Scales and Keys.
It was one of my students who first gave me the idea of designing keyboard scale fingering diagrams and many of my students have used them since. A special book for each of them with a complete set of major, natural minor, and harmonic minor musical scales and keys on the staff with keyboard fingering diagrams below seemed like a perfect next step!
[Special thanks to Am Y for the use of her beautiful piano photo for the cover!]
As a way of wishing everyone a Happy New Year, I am giving away 3 copies of The Pianists’ Book of Musical Scales and Keys! Just leave a comment below for your chance to win a copy. The winner will be chosen using a random number generator on Thursday, January 12, at noon (CST). Enjoy!
If you’re looking for a fun activity to give your students to keep their musical minds working during Christmas break, check out the Winter Competition 2012 that Theta Music Trainer just announced! Winners can receive up to $30 in Amazon gift cards. Come to think of it, that’s a good enough draw that maybe I’ll join in on the competition! 
#28 – Dana
#30 – Angie
#26 – Amy
#34 – Karla
#21 – Vera
Each of these Music Matters Blog readers won a free promo code for Princess Piano app. Hope you and your students enjoy it! Thanks to everyone for participating!
Light up the imagination of your young girl students with this fun princess-themed piano music reading app! From the developers, “In this melodious adventure, Princess Piano introduces the notes of the scale and how they are written on the staff. As Princess Piano climbs the skies towards the Cloud Kingdom, you will start with simple melodies, but will soon progress to be able to play well-known folk songs and selections from classical masters such as Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Debussy.”
Can’t you see your budding elementary girls just loving this? What a fun way to introduce and reinforce note recognition and reading!
The developers of the Princess Piano app have generously offered to giveaway five codes for a free copy of this app to Music Matters Blog readers! Just leave a comment below to be entered in a drawing to win this for you (or a student!). The winner will be drawn using a random number generator at noon (CST) on Thursday, October 27.
#30 – Leanne
#42 – Nancy Potoczky
These two will receive one of the historically rich Titanic: A Voyage in Piano Music books by Rebekah Maxner. Congrats! However, thanks to Rebekah’s generosity, everyone can get in on the win. She is offering a special deal: Buy 2 and get 1 for free! Here’s what she says:
2012 marks the 100th anniversary of one of the most tragic, but unforgettable events in history: the sinking of the RMS Titanic. The heart-wrenching story of the demise of one the grandest ocean-liner of its time has captured the imaginations of people for decades. Many have been inspired by the valiant sacrifice of the men on board, and thousands watched in fascination when its watery grave was discovered in 1986. Now, nearly 100 years after the fateful day, Rebekah Maxner has published a collection of books to keep the memory of the Titanic alive in the minds and hearts of pianists everywhere.
Titanic: A Voyage in Piano Music is available as both an elementary level piano book with optional duets and an intermediate level piano solo book. Each volume includes nine repertoire selections that “recount the tale of the Titanic’s one and only voyage: original music that captures the mood of the day, numbers that were performed for passengers by the hired White Star Line musicians, popular music that would have been played by Third Class passengers who had their own instruments, and music that was bravely played as the ship was sinking.”
As if this weren’t enough by itself, Rebekah has also included a variety of black and white photos from the Titanic and its passengers, and a paragraph of historical notes for each repertoire selection. The books are truly beautiful and will be loved by pianists everywhere!
Now…the moment you’ve all been waiting for. Rebekah has kindly offered to giveaway two copies of these Titanic books to two Music Matters Blog reader. Just leave a comment below to be entered in a drawing to win one of these books for yourself or a special student! The giveaway will end at noon (CST) on Thursday, October 13, and the winner will be drawn using a random number generator.
#4 -Wen
#18 -Rebekah Maxner
#2 -Loraine
Each of you will receive a free copy of the Classic Melody app! Congratulations! Just send me an e-mail and I’ll get you the complimentary code. Thanks to all who participated. Stay tuned for another giveaway next Tuesday!
Have you ever had a tune stuck in your head and you wished there was a way you could figure out what it was? Imagine if there was a handy little app where you could just play in the first few notes and it would automatically search through a database of songs and find the one that matches that tune. Well, guess what? You don’t have to use your imagination because there is now an app that does just that! And more!
The Classical Melody Book app is ingenious! In addition to alleviating the mind of those nameless tunes, the Classical Melody Book also enables you to store hundreds of pieces of sheet music right at your fingertips for easy access. You can search through it by title, composer, instrument, or even the year it was written!
You can add personal notes to any piece of music, e-mail it, or print it. And any pdf file can be added to the collection by clicking on an e-mail attachment or importing it from a website. The app is designed for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. What a truly amazing app for any musician or music educator!
The best part? You can win your own free copy of The Classical Melody Book App! Just leave a comment below and you’ll be entered in the drawing to win one of three free copies of the app that the developers have set aside for Music Matters Blog readers. The drawing will take place on Thursday, September 29, at 12:00 noon (CST) using a random number generator.
#26 – Heidi N.! Heidi is the winner of the drawing for a series of The Adventures of Fearless Fortissimo. Congrats! Thanks to all who participated.
Check back next Tuesday for another great giveaway!